Friday, March 16, 2007

150 Things To Put You To Sleep

I found this at Marni’s It’s A Pugs Life. Things in bold are things I've done. For the life of me I can’t imagine why anyone would won’t to know my answers to these, but let me know if you want me to explain any of them.

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula (In my hand, on my arm and under my foot.)
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea (US Navy, ya know)
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise (US Navy, ya know)
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg(besides my first wife?)
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can (especially when no one listens to me)
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment (just a moment, though)
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends (Still do)
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan (US Navy, ya know)
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater (After I got married, we went there and, did you know they have movies there?)
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight (I can’t even spell D&D, much less play it.)
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie (I’m always being ask if I’m Jon Holmes, but no, it’s not me.)
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days (does speed count as food?)
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest (I went to a nudist Halloween party as a tri-pod one time, but I lost the contest because I kept tipping over.)
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice (Wouldn’t it be a hoot to give the gondola driver – what ever they are called – a hit of speed and then go water skiing behind him?)
80. Gotten a tattoo (Just liver spots.)
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children/currently raising child
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived (Does birth count?)
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes (I live in the South!)
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (Have you ever ordered food in a real Mexican restaurant?)
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head (Navy boot camp, ya know)
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

7 comments:

Norman said...

allright. #18 was just WRONG!!! but very funny...

norman!

GrizzBabe said...

I think there is a law - if you live in the South, you must eat fried green tomatoes. They are delish, aren't they? Here's a question for you - flour or cornmeal?

katy said...

you caused a car crash go on then how?
and what did you perfrom on stage?

Coffeypot said...

Norman – You are right. Maybe if she had a “hot rod” she wouldn’t have been so cold. Actually, she is a very sweet and warm person, but where she spits, grass never grows again.

Grizzbabe – I don’t know. I don’t cook them. I just eat them – especially with ranch dressing. All that is required is to set them in front of me or within arms reach.

Her indoors – Oh! Once I was racing with another idiot and said other idiot didn’t want to dent his fender when I changed lanes on him so he ran off the road into a tree. He was okay, but pissed. I won! Another time I was sitting at a stop-light. I looked into my rearview mirror and saw the pickup coming pretty fast. I pulled into the oncoming lane and let the pickup run into the rear of the car in front of me. A car coming head on to me swerved and hit a bus stop bench (just a scratch because he wasn’t going very fast.)

I was never charged in either of the incidents. The first one, I left before the cops arrived and the other guy didn’t know me. The second one, the guy who swerved and hit the bus stop bench told the police that he wasn’t upset – that he would have done the same thing. It was the guy in the pickup truck who was charged with DUI and was taken to jail after he got out of the hospital. The woman in front of me started the “whip-lash” bull shit. But I told her I would testify that the pickup guy didn’t hit her that hard. Before the cops arrived, she was picking up sack of groceries out of the floor board and walking around talking and acting normal. When the police arrived she started this limping shit and saying her neck hurt. I told the cops she what she had been doing. He said he had to call for an ambulance because she said she was hurt. I told both insurance companies she was faking, but I don’t know what happened after that.

Biddie said...

Great list. You can really learn alot about your blog buddies from these lists.

Coffeypot said...

Her indoors - sorry, I missed the second part of your question. I have had to give presentations on stage when I was in college and when I was working on my MBA. It’s difficult standing before an audience of your peers who probably know more about what you are presenting than you do, but you have to make it look like you know what you are talking about. I also did a small skit on a cruse when I had to play Tarzan saving my Jane in order to win the “Knobby Knees” contest. I have it on video, too. I have sang with choruses and in general, been a ham most of my life.

DJ Andi said...

Grizzbabe-the original Fried Green Tomatoes recipe (from the real Whistle Stop cafe) calls for both flour and cornmeal.

I want to know who's life you saved and what happened.

This definitely is a good way to get to know people. I did it on my blog too.